John Carter
I also spent much of the 12-hr. flight to Seoul Korea, 5-hr. layover and further 10-hr. flight to Nandi, pondering on what this adventure would deliver? For sure I wasn’t as nervous as Scotty or Philip who would both have to drop into the pit of this beautiful but beastly wave, but at the same time, there was still an edginess to my mood as the anticipation finally turned into reality and I touched down in Fiji. It’s a short bus ride from the airport to the ferry where the Malalo Cat was all booked up to take us out to the Islands. Scotty had booked us into the Plantation Island Resort that was to be our base camp for the next five days. Polakow had arrived a day before us and was already settled in on Namotu Island sharing digs with surfing legends Mick Fanning and Joel Parkinson who’d also arrived early before the Volcom ASP event due to start on the 2nd of June.